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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Identifying all people or organizations impacted by the project and documenting relevant information regarding their interest - involvement and impact on project success






2. Type of procurement document used to request price quotations from prospective sellers of common or standard products or services






3. A category of projects that have common components significant in such projects - but are not needed or present in all projects. application areas are usually defined in terms of either the product or the type of customer or industry sector






4. Total number of work periods required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component.






5. One or more numerical or text values that identify characteristics of the work or in some way categorize the schedule activity that allows filtering and ordering of activities within reports






6. The aggregate of things used by an organization in any undertaking such as equipment - apparatus - tools - machinery - gear - material.






7. A collection of formal documented procedures that define how project deliverables and documentation will be controlled - changed and approved. in most application areas - the change control system is a subset of the configuration management system






8. Model used in conjunction with manual methods or project management software to perform schedule network analysis to generate the project schedule for use in managing the executing or a project






9. Describes when and how human resource requirements will be met






10. Hierarchal structure of resources by resource category and resource type used in resource leveling schedules and to develop resource limited schedules and which may be used to identify and analyze project human resource management






11. Subdivision (fragment) of a project schedule network diagram - usually representing a subproject or work package.






12. Deliverable that is subject to approval by the project sponsor or customer






13. Change to project scope. almost always requires an adjustment to the project cost or schedule






14. Point in time that work was scheduled to finish on a schedule activity. called planned finish date






15. Centralized coordinated management of a program to achieve the program's strategic objectives and benefits






16. Graphic display of schedule related information.






17. A change request that has been processed through the integrated change control process and approved






18. Smaller portion of the overall project created when a project is subdivided by their logical relationship






19. Continuously improving and detailing a plan as more detailed and specific information and more accurate estimates become available as the project progresses and thereby producing more accurate and complete plans that result from the successive iterat






20. Narrative description of products - services or results






21. Technique for estimating that applies a weighted average of optimistic - pessimistic and most likely estimates when there is uncertainty with the individual activity estimates






22. A source of variation that is inherent in the system and predictable. on a control chart - it appears as part of the random process variation and is indicated by random pattern of points within the control limits. also referred to as random cause






23. Document that describes how procurement processes from developing procurement documentation through contract closure will be managed






24. Structure that relates the project organizational breakdown structure to the work breakdown structure to help ensure that each component of the project scope of work is assigned to a person or team






25. Evaluation of whether or not a product - service - or system complies with a regulation - requirement - specification or imposed condition.






26. Group of potential causes of risk. such as technical - external - organizational - environmental - project management. a category may include subcategories






27. Developing options and actions to enhance opportunities and to reduce threats to project objectives






28. Document that establishes criteria and activities for developing and controlling the project schedule






29. Output from performing project management processes and activities. results include outcomes and documents.






30. Condition or situation unfavorable to the project - a negative set of circumstances - a negative set of events - a risk that will have a negative impact on a project objective if it occurs - or a possibility for negative changes






31. Permission and direction to begin work on a specific schedule activity or work package or control account. sanctions project work to ensure that the work is done by the identified organization - at the right time - and in the proper sequence






32. Deliverable or project work component at the lowest level of each branch of the work breakdown structure






33. The smallest unit of time used in scheduling a project. calendar units are generally in hours - days - or weeks - but can also be in quarters years - months - shifts - or even minutes






34. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure






35. Deliverable oriented hierarchical decomposition of the work to be executed by the project team to accomplish the project objectives and create the required deliverables






36. Approach to optimize project life cycle costs - save time - increase profits - improve quality - expand market share - solve problems - and use resources more effectively






37. Float (total float - free float)






38. Fixed date imposed on a schedule activity or schedule milestone. usually - start no earlier than - finish no later than






39. Collection of generally sequential - non overlapping product phases whose name and number are determined by the manufacturing and control needs of the organization.






40. Temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service or result






41. Collection of projects or programs and other work that are grouped together to facilitate effective management of that work to meet strategic business objectives






42. Any of all external environmental factors and internal organizational environmental factors that surround or influence the projects success. these factors are from any or all of the enterprises involved in the project and include organizational cultu






43. A quantitative assessment of the likely amount or outcome. usually applied to project costs - resources - effort and durations.






44. Work that must be performed to deliver a product - service or result with the specified features and functions






45. Developing a detailed description of the project and product






46. The time in calendar units between the start and finish of a schedule activity






47. The time in calendar units between the actual start date of the schedule activity and either the data date of the project schedule if the schedule activity is in progress or the actual finish date if the schedule activity is complete






48. Performing the work defined in the project management plan to achieve the project's objectives






49. Schedule activity that determines when the logical successor activity can begin or end






50. Members of the project team who are directly involved in project management activities